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Hot on the heels of Qt 5.5.1 landing in the official ports tree, Plasma 5.5.4 has been added to the area51 repository. Users can Update their plasma5-plasma port from the unnoficial ports tree.
In the official ports tree, Qt has been updated to Qt 5.5.1. This is the culmination of months of porting effort, careful testing, exp-runs and package-disentangling. Users of Qt5 on FreeBSD now have the latest official Qt5 release available to them. Users are advised to consult the UPDATING file, as some ports have been split up. Special thanks to Yuri Victorovich, who did an independent port of Qt 5.5.1 and whose work has been incorporated in this update.
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The monthly release of KDE Frameworks has also arrived in area51. Together with the newest KDE Frameworks ports, Plasma has been updated to 5.5.3 and KDE Applications to 15.12.1. All these ports can be found in the unofficial ports tree.
Many of the KDE-related ports in area51 have been updated once again. The Calligra suite has been updated to version 2.9.10. KDE Applications are version 15.12.0. The Plasma desktop has updated to (the weekly release) Plasma 5.5.1. All these ports can be found in the unofficial ports tree.
Just a day after their release by the KDE community, the KDE Frameworks 5 ports have been updated to the latest version, KDE Frameworks 5.17.0. These ports are intended for testing before eventually entering the official ports tree. These new ports are available in area51 in the plasma5 branch.
The Plasma 5 Desktop ports have been updated to the latest Plasma 5.5. This does not affect the KDE Frameworks or Applications in area51. These ports are intended for testing before eventually entering the official ports tree. These new ports are available in area51 in the plasma5 branch.
The KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 Desktop ports have been updated to the newly-released KDE Frameworks 5.16.0 and Plasma 5.4.3. There are also ports of the Applications 15.12 beta. These ports are intended for testing before eventually entering the official ports tree. These new ports are available in area51 in the plasma5 branch.
The KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 Desktop ports have been updated to the newly-released KDE Frameworks 5.15.0 and Plasma 5.4.2, following the official releases at the beginning of October. These ports are intended for testing before eventually entering the official ports tree. These new ports are available in area51 in the plasma5 branch.
The "bleeding edge" repository for KDE Frameworks 5 ports has been updated to the newly-released KDE Frameworks 5.14.0 and Plasma 5.4.1. These new ports are intended for testing before eventually entering the official ports tree, and have been built by the KDE-FreeBSD team on FreeBSD 9.3 x86, 10.2 amd64 and 11 amd64. These new ports are available in area51 in the plasma5 branch.
